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“I found him to be a magnanimous warm man, big man”

US filmmaker Oliver Stone hailed Friday the achievements of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and forecast that his vice president would be elected if the controversial leader dies of cancer.

“I think he’s going to be mourned as a national figure, he changed Venezuela forever, you have no idea how bad it was before him,” Stone told CNN, about the possibility Chavez may not survive.

Before Chavez, “people were fed up. He represents hope and change, the things that (President Barack) Obama stood for in our country in 2008,” he said, adding: “I was very happy that he won the re-election” in October. …

CNN founder Ted Turner, after once looking gulag-stuffing Soviet leaders “in the eyes,” exclaimed, “they looked like they meant the truth.”
When asked if he agreed that Christian-torturing Kim Jong Il is evil & despotic, Turner admitted, “I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look, in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people.” http://newsbusters.org/node/8225
Most people look like green-pajamas-clad Elvis impersonators, right?
Turner insisted that it can’t be so bad in N. Korea, because he “didn’t see any” brutality or starvation.

“He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them,” Stone told RT. “It is an Orwellian state. It might not be oppressive on the surface, but there is no place to hide. Some part of you is going to end up in the database somewhere.”